Arthur Ransome Quotes

• Grab a chance and you won't be sorry for a might-have-been.

  Arthur Ransome

  Sorry, Might, Chance

  "We Didn't Mean To Go To Sea".

  45 Copy quote

• There are two distinct visits to tackle-shops, the visit to buy tackle and the visit which may be described as Platonic when, being for some reason unable to fish, we look for an excuse to go in, and waste the tackle dealer's time.

  Arthur Ransome

  Sea, Fishing, Two

  47 Copy quote

• The desire to build a house is the tired wish of a man content thenceforward with a single anchorage. The desire to build a boat is the desire of youth, unwilling yet to accept the idea of a final resting place.

  Arthur Ransome

  Tired, Men, Ideas

  Arthur Ransome, Brian Hammett (2002). “Racundra's third cruise”, Wiley

  34 Copy quote

• When a thing's done, it's done, and if it's not done right, do it differently next time.

  Arthur Ransome

  Done, Next, Next Time

  Arthur Ransome (2012). “Swallowdale”, p.128, Random House

  15 Copy quote

• You write not for children but for yourself. And if by good fortune children enjoy what you enjoy, why then you are a writer of children's books.

  Arthur Ransome

  Children, Book, Writing

  16 Copy quote

• Fishing books , lit by emotion recollected in tranquility, are like poetry. .. . We do not think of them as books but as men. They are our companions and not only riverside. Summer and winter they are with us and what a pleasant company they are.

  Arthur Ransome

  Summer, Book, Winter

  Arthur Ransome (2013). “Fishing”, p.15, Cambridge University Press

  19 Copy quote

• . . perhaps the greatest satisfaction on the first day of the season is the knowledge in the evening that the whole of the rest of the season is to come.

  Arthur Ransome

  Lakes, Sea, Fishing

  8 Copy quote

• I fished a little while ago with a man, not in his first youth, who had wasted the flower of his life on business and golf and gardening and motoring and marriage, and had in this way postponed his initiation (to fly fishing) far too long.

  Arthur Ransome

  Flower, Golf, Men

  7 Copy quote

• Swallows and Amazons for-ever!

  Arthur Ransome

  Arthur Ransome (2012). “Swallows and Amazons”, Random House

  10 Copy quote

• For at least the last 275 years the honesty of fishermen has been somewhat questionable. It should be noted that Izaak Walton whose book published in 1653 spoke not of anglers and , but anglers OR very honest men .

  Arthur Ransome

  Honesty, Book, Men

  6 Copy quote

• Fishing is not like billiards, in which it is possible to attain a disgusting perfection.

  Arthur Ransome

  Lakes, Sea, Fishing

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• ...next to the pleasure of reading a favourite fishing book comes that of persuading a friend to read it too.

  Arthur Ransome

  Book, Reading, Rivers

  Arthur Ransome (2013). “Fishing”, p.9, Cambridge University Press

  6 Copy quote

• Good fishermen know that in talking about fishing, nothing is more interesting than the truth.

  Arthur Ransome

  Lakes, Talking, Sea

  4 Copy quote

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